What a long week

Where to begin. It was SUCH a long week.....

First with the good news - my glucose test results came back normal. Thank goodness! Since I can't drink I now like to drown my sorrows in cake....still probably bad, but it sure does help when you get bad news!! I thought it would come back ok since I am hypoglycemic to begin with, but you never know....bodies go through crazy changes when you are preggers. Like now, I am pretty sure I am growing exponentially - HA!! You couldn't tell I was pregnant for 20 weeks, but now I am HUGE. I just don't see how I am going to stretch anymore.....craziness.

Now to the bad news. Poor Alex has not had a good week. He had surgery last Friday to remove a Mast Cell Tumor - that was the beginning of the problems. His actual surgery went pretty well, but he gets so worked up and upset being at the vet without us that he ended up hurting his leg. He has very bad joints in his back right leg and that is the leg he sprained/pulled. So when he came home he was just dragging it around - very sad. The vet said to keep him off it and it will heal (as much as it can, being bad to begin with) - but how do you keep a doggy off his leg?!?! Well, by Tuesday things got worse for the pups - I noticed his tinkle was darker than normal and I thought something was wrong. Andy of course thought I was crazy and being paranoid, but I made him take Alex back to the vet for test. Turns out he has a urinary tract infection - probably picked up since his immune system is repressed from perpetual steroid use and surgery (he is on Temeril-P daily for other existing issues). So, now he has to take an antibiotic for 21 days and then be re-checked. Then the worst part - his biopsy results came back and the tumor was cancerous. Poor little Alex has cancer =( Now, they may have gotten it all (she said they did get .5cm of clean margins around the tumor), but they cannot be sure it has not spread or will not come back. There are several different options that we can take, but two of them are quite expensive - especially with a baby on the way. Unfortunately, I think we are going to just have to "wait and see" if any other spots develop and then have them removed. We already take him in every 6 months for lab work and such, and the vet thinks this would be a very acceptable way to go. We will not be putting him though chemotherapy - that would just be too sad for puppy - he would not like it at all. So the consensus in my family now seems to be - give Alex as many cookies as he wants and let him be a happy (and probably fat) little pups for his remaining years - HA!

So that was my week - I won't even go into how stressful work was this week - there is not enough time in the day to describe that. Oh well - I have some yummy chocolate cake from the Grotto to make me feel better =)